Civil engineering

Civil engineering

The branch of engineering concerned with the design, construction, and maintenance of such public works roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings.

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Designated floodway

Engineering; Civil engineering

The channel of a water course and those portions of the adjoining flood plain required to provide for the passage of a selected flood with a small increase in flood stage above that of natural ...

Diversion inlet

Engineering; Civil engineering

A conduit or tunnel upstream from an intake structure. Diversion inlet may be integral with the outlet works or be part of a separate conveyance structure that will only be used during construction.

Flow curve

Engineering; Civil engineering

The locus of points obtained from a standard liquid limit test and plotted on a graph representing moisture content as ordinate on an arithmetic scale and the number of blows as abscissa on a ...

A gondola-lift like conveyor system with a line of structural steel towers supporting wire ropes which serve as tracks so containers can be suspended from it to transport goods. This type of ropeway ...

Backhoe

Engineering; Civil engineering

An excavating machine or digger consisting of a digging bucket on the end of a two-part articulated arm chiefly used for trenching and pit-like excavations. Also called a rear actor or back actor, ...

Asphaltic concrete paving

Engineering; Civil engineering

Commonly called asphalt paving or beck-top, it is a construction method by which the mixture of asphalt and aggregate (sand and crushed rock or gravel) is spread while hot onto a prepared surface and ...

Arch dam

Engineering; Civil engineering

A concrete or masonry dam which is curved upstream in plan in order to transmit the major part of the water load to the abutments and to keep the dam in compression. An arch dam is most likely used ...